When deciding whether or not to resume the 19-20 season amid the ongoing threat of COVID-19, the NBA must weigh the risks on all sorts of levels.

"What if someone dies?" writes Henry Abbott of TrueHoop. "A front office executive told me this is what he’s worried about. This is a deadly virus, anecdotally quite a few people in and around the NBA have had it. In some cases, the symptoms have been serious."

COVID-19 can create complicated symptoms in people previously thought to be completely healthy, though older people are most at risk.